Assembly Bill (AB) 2599, the Truth in Disclosure Act, authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Ladera Heights), was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making California the first state in the nation to require large corporations to disclose historical and financial ties to chattel slavery.
For generations, the conversation about Black wealth has focused on what we do not have: not enough savings, not enough access to capital, not enough homeownership and not enough inherited wealth. Those realities matter, and the disparities behind them are real but there is another question worth asking: What are we doing with the wealth we already have?
California is adding new anti-hate training requirements for elected officials and some private sector employees after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills aimed at strengthening how government agencies and employers respond to hate speech and bias.
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Author U.S. Embassy Trinidad and TobagoNEW YORK — For anyone raised in the Caribbean, or in a Brooklyn, Bronx, or Queens household where the radio stayed tuned to home, there was never a time without the Mighty Sparrow. His voice was simply part of the furniture of our lives: at Carnival, at weddings, at Sunday lunch, in the car on the way to JFK. On Sunday, that voice went quiet.
When Maurice Brewster won a contract with Disneyland, the biggest challenge was not getting the work. It was about having enough money to do it.
As the father of a young daughter with autism, I have learned that getting your child to school is not always as simple as putting them on the bus and waiting for them to come home.
An estimated 55,000 consumers will benefit from a $694 million class-action settlement against a predatory auto lender reached by attorneys general in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
A grand jury declines charges in the Nolan Wells case, a Jackson man pleads not guilty in Tasia Fortune’s hanging death, and a Maryland suicide ruling lands on raw nerves.
Covered California has connected nearly 1.8 million people to health insurance this year and actively negotiates with health insurance companies to get the lowest possible prices for consumers. California’s rate increase of 9.9% is significantly lower than the preliminary national median rate increase of 14% — and why for most of the past decade, the average cost of a benchmark plan in California has been lower than the national average.
Beware of billionaires who want you to pay for their ego trip. That’s the story behind Proposition (Prop) 38 and why voters should say “no.”
I graduated from Marine Corps boot camp a couple weeks before September 11, 2001. I had no idea how profoundly 9/11 would change the trajectory of my life.
The internet chatter about Black artists struggling to sell concert tickets points to a much larger crisis reshaping the touring business, according to recent industry reporting and artists’ own comments.
The Hollywood Bowl looked a lot like South Central on Sept. 29, when visual artist Lauren Halsey took over the entire amphitheater for emajendat, a one-night event she described as a “funk opera.”
Inglewood is putting $2.8 million of its approximately $3.1 million in federal HOME-ARP funds toward Sankofa Place, a $105 million affordable housing development that will bring 120 units to two parcels on Centinela Avenue and Warren Lane.
The new-look Los Angeles Lakers got their first taste of game action this week, and it came in two very different flavors.
SEATTLE — The Los Angeles Chargers put up a season-high 23 points Sunday and still came home empty-handed.
PHILADELPHIA — For three and a half quarters Sunday, the Los Angeles Rams looked like a team headed for a 1-3 start. Then Matthew Stafford and Kyren Williams went to work.
On Nov. 3, Virginians decide Ballot Question 3, a constitutional amendment that would automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison — ending a lifetime ban adopted in 1902. Nearly half the Virginians it affects are Black.
As business owners check their mailboxes this Halloween season, they shouldn’t have to fear being targeted by a frightening demand letter threatening costly litigation. Yet for too many California businesses, that fear has become a reality. One of the scariest examples has been the explosion of lawsuits under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a statute written in 1967 to stop illegal wiretapping of landline telephones. This law was never intended to regulate online activity decades before the internet even existed.
